Jennifer Egan Quotes

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.

Lil Wayne'll make you wanna jump up, get three jobs, write a song, and do a movie!

It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout.

Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.

I can't write unless I'm overlooking water.

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

I don't have certain kinds of fatigue. My focus stays strong - I can work on a song for six or seven hours in one day and not get bored or tired of it.

In running my own company, I was too busy for a while, and I thought, 'Maybe I'll stop dancing for a bit.' It was the worst decision ever. I just lost my creativity and my drive.

I get bursts of creativity with bursts of physical activity.

If you have a culture of respect, creativity flows. You create this energy, and then people have more desire to take risks.

I feel like I bring the juice and the squeeze.

Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.

Sometimes, you see folks who have a negative view of dreamers - people who sit around all day on their hindquarters and do absolutely nothing. These folks aren't dreamers - they are just lazy. To me, dreaming is just part of being alive, inspired, and curious about the world.

Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.

Spend your time and energy creating, not criticizing.

Some people say talent is energy and that's a very interesting way of thinking about it. In other words, people with talent have a lot of energy.

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

I am like a lemon. I'm pressed for more juice. When I have fun, there's still juice. I am not dried up.

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.

If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation.

Beautiful objects, ideas, even beautiful people all share the power to lift the spirits and motivate creativity while at the same time soothing the soul.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day: 'tis the heat which sets our human atoms spinning, overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds, and first addresses in society, and gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue, when once it is begun.

Boredom is a great motivator.